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Third Suspect Cuffed in Manhattan’s Brutal Bitcoin Kidnapping Saga—Because Crypto Crime Pays (Until It Doesn’t)

Third Suspect Cuffed in Manhattan’s Brutal Bitcoin Kidnapping Saga—Because Crypto Crime Pays (Until It Doesn’t)

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CoindeskEN
Published:
2025-05-27 19:33:18
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Third Arrest Made in Manhattan Bitcoin Kidnapping, Torture Case

NYPD slaps cuffs on another alleged participant in a shockingly violent crypto-linked abduction—proving once again that where there’s digital gold, there are analog criminals.

Forget ’HODL’—this crew took ’off-ramp’ way too literally. The victim? Beaten, tortured, and robbed of Bitcoin in a case that reads like a dark-web fever dream.

Wall Street bankers still think crypto’s the wild west? At least our outlaws wear ski masks instead of bespoke suits.

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